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Show SEARCHING FORJARRY Escaped Convict Evades Many Pursuing Pursu-ing Posses May Have Crossed Mountains Into In-to Uintah Officers Follow All Clues. Salt Lake. Aug 4 George W. Parry, Par-ry, life convict and human fiend, who escaped from tho state prison between be-tween 10 15 o'clock Friday nlpht and 5 30 o'clock Saturday morning is still at large. Posses searching canyons and ravines along the foothills of the Wasatch mountains from Parleys to Cenferville canyon had found no trace of Parry up to a late hour last nicht. though the manhunt for the most dangerous convict that ever escaped from the prison commenced Saturday and continued through the night almost al-most without Interruption What Is considered the most substantial sub-stantial clew in reference to the source taken by Parry after his mysterious mys-terious escape from the penitentiary was rerehed about 4 o'clock yesterday yester-day afternoon at the state prison. About S o clock Saturday morning before be-fore the alarm of Parry's escape had been spread, a man resembling the description of Parry and attired in gray trousers, similar to those of the prison Karh. and a black coat, called at the little summer camp of Alma F. Thornberg, eight miles above the mouth of Parleys canyon "I am going to take a long journey over the mountains to get iork." said the man addressing Thornberg "Wonder It you couldn't let me have a little food scraps will do as long as It's food The stranger was asked if he did not desire to have breakfast He declined de-clined the invitation, appearing to be highly nervous. While a package of meat and bread and a few hard boiled eggs was being put up for him he stood In the canyon roadway and frequently fre-quently looked behind him. He wrapped wrap-ped the food in a large handkerchief, after the fashion of an itinerant tramp, and hurried up the canyon Scarcely had Deputy Warden A G L're been informed of the description of the stranger who called at the Thornberg summer camp than he sent out an urgent call to get the prison automobile ready at once. Four guards went Into the machine with him. Ure stopped at the Thornberg camp only long enough to have hi 8Utpecion strengthened that Saturday morning's early caller ma have been the summer camp the automobile au-tomobile sped up the canyon, stopping at every recess and ravine long enough en-ough to permit guards to search briefly Continuing, the automobile proceeded as far as Park CitJ where two guards will remain to watch all approaches to earn oris leading down into Salt Lake Returning down the canvon. Deputy Warden Ure continued contin-ued the hunt, satisfying himself that if the man who called at the Thornberg Thorn-berg summer camp continued up the canvon he max be on the other side of the range and may be headed for the Uintah reservation and thf sparsely inhabited part of the state along the Colorado line. oo |